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Wednesday, March 16, 2022, 11:02
UN: 23m acute hunger cases in Afghanistan
By Xinhua
Wednesday, March 16, 2022, 11:02 By Xinhua

People stand as they receive free bread distributed as part of the Save Afghans From Hunger campaign in front of a bakery in Kabul on Jan 18, 2022. (WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP)

UNITED NATIONS - Hunger haunts Afghanistan, with acute cases increasing from 14 million in July 2021 to 23 million in March 2022, a UN spokesman said on Tuesday.

The United Nations and its partners plan to reach 3.2 million acutely malnourished children through 2,500 treatment sites across all 34 Afghan provinces, said Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

The United Nations and its partners plan to reach 3.2 million acutely malnourished children through 2,500 treatment sites across all 34 Afghan provinces, said Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres

The sites have served 800,000 acutely malnourished children since mid-August, Haq said.

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This year, humanitarian partners have supported 8.2 million people with food assistance, including emergency food rations, school meals for children, agricultural supplies for farmers and nutritious foods for nursing mothers and their infants, he said.

Haq said the British, German and Qatari governments plan to host an international pledging conference on March 31 in support of the humanitarian response in Afghanistan.

The 2022 humanitarian response plan for Afghanistan requests $4.4 billion to reach more than 21 million people. But funding stands at only 13 percent, he said. 

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